NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Oxygen is the final electron acceptor in this respiratory cascade, and its reduction to water is used as a vehicle by which to clear the mitochondrial chain of low-energy, spent electrons. The enzyme that catalyzes this process, cytochrome oxidase, spans the mitochondrial membrane.

Detailed explanation-2: -In cellular respiration, oxygen is the final electron acceptor. Oxygen accepts the electrons after they have passed through the electron transport chain and ATPase, the enzyme responsible for creating high-energy ATP molecules.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oxygen acts as the final electron acceptor in the electron transfer chain, resulting in the formation of H2O. This is essential because without it, the electron transfer chain cannot function resulting in a lack of oxidative phosphorylation in the inner membrane of the mitochondria.

Detailed explanation-4: -The reduced chemical compounds are oxidized by a series of respiratory integral membrane proteins with sequentially increasing reduction potentials, with the final electron acceptor being oxygen (in aerobic respiration) or another chemical substance (in anaerobic respiration).